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    Fairs' Point: A Novel of Astreiant

    By Melissa Scott

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    During Dog Moon, the chief entertainment in the great city of Astreiant, for nobles and commons alike, is the basket-terrier races at New Fair. This year, with spectacularly bad timing, the massive and suspicious bankruptcy of a young nobleman has convulsed the city, leading to suicides, widespread loss of employment, and inconvenient new laws around the universal practice of betting on the races. As well, a rash of mysterious burglaries seems to suggest a magistical conspiracy.

    Pointsman Nicolas Rathe is naturally in the midst of all these disturbances—as is his lover, foreign former mercenary Philip Eslingen. When Eslingen receives a basket-terrier puppy in the redistribution of the bankrupt’s household goods, he makes the best of it by having the pup trained for the races, an action that draws him and Rathe deeper into the coils of a mystery somehow involving New Fair’s dog races, bookies and bettors, the bankruptcy and its causes and fallout, burglaries, and a new uncanny form of murder.

    Fourth in the Astreiant series, Fairs’ Point once again demonstrates Melissa Scott’s mastery of fantasy world building, detective-story plotting, and the provision of sheer delight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLethe Press
    Release dateMay 17, 2014
    ISBN9781310872259
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    Fairs' Point: A Novel of Astreiant
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    Melissa Scott

    Melissa Scott is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author. She is the author of more than two dozen books, including the Astreiant series. She has won the John W. Campbell Award and several Lambda Literary Awards.

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      Many Astreiant's citizens have extended credit to the failed claimant to an estate and when his possessions are redistributed Phillip Ellsingen gets one of his dogs just in time to have it entered in the yearly dog races. Meanwhile there are disappearances and thefts plaguing the merchants and bookies at the races, and though it's outside his Points jurisdiction Rathe gets deeply involved. Steady action and good characters and interactions.